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Di Jiu possessed very few healing elixirs, so Little Tree could currently only refine average level-three Spirit Elixirs. The highest level of healing elixirs were level-two Spirit Elixirs, which would not be of much use to Di Jiu.

Given his severe injuries, Di Jiu could only rely on the Spirit Stones and the Galaxy Art right now.

A day later, he was pleasantly surprised to discover that his Spiritual Force had become much more condensed. This was not achieved through the Galaxy Art, but as a result of using up his Spiritual Force completely and developing it again.

This method might be quite torturous, but it was a good way to condense Spiritual Force.

Di Jiu was currently faster at upgrading his Spiritual Force escape technique than increasing his cultivation.

He would have died during the earlier attack if it had not been for the Spiritual Force escape technique.

Half a month later, Di Jiu’s injuries had completely disappeared. It had only taken him half a month to heal his injuries, even though someone else would have needed several years despite using top-notch healing elixirs.

His body had the capability to heal swiftly. This healing capability became stronger as his cultivation rose. It was only because his injuries had been severe that it had taken him half a month to heal completely.

Di Jiu set up a new Defense Array in the cave abode. Although the cave was not small, it was still insufficient for Di Jiu.

After spending two days there, he successfully expanded the size of the cave until it was twice as large. Although there was only one cultivation room, it was more than 200 square feet.

Di Jiu changed the Defense Arrays at the cave abode’s entrance to level-five Dharma Arrays, including a Defense Array, a confinement array, a Spirit-Hiding Array and a Spirit-Binding Array.

Then, he took the blue spirit meridian out of the spirit herb garden ring.

As soon as the blue spirit meridian reappeared, an extremely dense Spirit Qi filled the entire cave abode. Just like the Spirit Origin of the blue lake, this Spirit Qi was so dense that it could cleanse one’s meridians.

Little Tree jumped on the spirit meridian in pleasant surprise. “You really obtained the blue spirit meridian, Big Brother? I thought that bastard was just spouting nonsense.”

“He was indeed spouting nonsense. I only got a 100-feet blue spirit meridian. That bastard said that it was more than 1000 feet in length. You cultivate underneath the spirit meridian. I want to break through here.” Di Jiu sent Little Tree down below the spirit meridian.

He needed to break through as soon as possible, and the blue spirit meridian was perfect for cultivating and overcoming obstacles. Di Jiu sensed that the vein contained a form of law aura. If Little Tree also cultivated on top of the spirit meridian, his cultivation process would most likely be affected.

Little Tree was about to reach level-three, but it would still be able to break through even if it cultivated underneath the spirit meridian.

“Yes, Big Brother.” Little Tree was still very happy. Cultivating beside this blue spirit meridian would be no different from cultivating inside the blue lake. Given its cultivating speed, it would be able to attain level-three within a month.

Di Jiu sat down on the blue spirit meridian. The Galaxy Art swept up the majority of the Spirit Qi of the spirit meridian, extracted the dense Spirit Qi on the spirit meridian and gathered it into the starry sky meridian.

Di Jiu felt exhilarated as he absorbed this extremely pure Spirit Qi. He could clearly feel the impurities within his body get washed away by the Spirit Qi, which contained a cooling aura.

The impurities in his body had been very few to begin with due to the presence of the gray stone. Still, the remaining impurities were cleansed from his body as his cultivation speed increased.

After a few Qi Circulations, Di Jiu’s cultivation had already increased significantly.

If there had been more of this cooling aura, his impurities would have been cleansed more thoroughly…

Di Jiu suddenly remembered the blue pearl he had obtained. He immediately took out the pearl and placed it above the blue spirit meridian without hesitation.

The atmosphere within the cave abode became frosty, as the degree of coldness there was even greater than inside the blue lake. Di Jiu attempted to complete a Qi Circulation. When the frosty Spirit Qi was absorbed by the starry sky meridian, he immediately sensed the unparalleled benefits.

His impurities were being washed away faster and more thoroughly now. The Spirit Qi also cleansed his constitution and increased his cultivation speed.

His swift cultivation speed made Di Jiu ignore the frost caused by the pearl.

It was truly exhilarating to cultivate in this sort of environment. Di Jiu rarely consumed elixirs, as ever since he had obtained the gray stone, the impurities inside him had been very few. Thanks to this dense and pure Spirit Qi, his starry sky meridian was filled with Quintessential Essence in just five days. When the next Qi Circulation was completed, Di Jiu’s body jerked. A new door had opened within his body. His Quintessential Essence soared rapidly, while his Spiritual Sea started to expand. A third star had also appeared in his starry sky meridian.

After one Qi Circulation, the star had already appeared clearly.

In just a few days, Di Jiu attained the third-stage Golden Core Realm.

The cave became increasingly colder as Di Jiu was engrossed in his cultivation. A blue spirit cocoon was slowly formed around his body by the dense Spirit Qi.

Due to the presence of the Spirit-Binding Array, the Spirit Qi Di Jiu was unable to absorb remained in the cave abode instead of escaping.

One month later, Di Jiu advanced from the third-stage Golden Core Realm to the fourth-stage Golden Core Realm. The number of stars in his starry sky meridian became four.

As Di Jiu broke through to the fourth-stage Golden Core Realm, Little Tree became a level-three Demon Tree and started to walk around excitedly. Unfortunately, Di Jiu was cultivating and Geng Ji and the dung beetle were not there, so it was unable to share its joy with anyone.

After walking proudly for some time, Little Tree did not find someone to show off to. Thus, it had no choice but to absorb the frosty blue Spirit Qi and continue cultivating.

…

A demonic-looking young man with blue hair stood outside the Sky Screen and stared at it gloomily.

The cultivators that remained outside the Sky Screen avoided this demonic-looking young man when they saw him, as he had slapped a Qi Family Essence Soul Ancestor to death and kidnapped a second-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Qi Family.

It did not matter why the blue-haired young man had gone there. No one would dare approach him and chit-chat with him.

The young man with the blue hair was surrounded by an aura of bloodlust, and his eyes were filled with intense killing intent.

He had never expected that he would be deceived by a weakling. After interrogating repeatedly the second-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Qi Family that he had kidnapped, he had found out that he did not even know what a Spiritual Force technique was.

It was only after he searched the cultivator’s soul that he discovered that he was telling the truth. The cultivator did not possess any information regarding the Spiritual Force technique.

The young man had repeatedly extracted and observed the second-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator’s memory before finally finding the answer by accident.

Right before the opening of the Sky Screen, a Qi Refinement realm weakling had bumped into the second-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. The cultivator had repeatedly apologized, so the second-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator had not taken offense.

If the second-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator knew nothing about the escape technique, it was highly possible that the Spiritual Force escape technique that had appeared in his storage bag had been put there by that Qi Refinement Realm weakling.

He must have been an Array Great-Master around level-five to be able to place the item into the cultivator’s storage bag without alarming him. The culprit’s cultivation had to be hidden as well.

Jian Yiwu was very confident about his array formation skills. He believed that even if that man was a level-five or even a level-six Array Great-Master, he would not be able to discover the Spiritual Force imprint he had left on the jade slip. Therefore, why would he place the Spiritual Force jade slip into someone else’s storage bag?

Had he chosen the target intentionally, or had there been no specific purpose? Unfortunately, the cultivator had not taken this encounter seriously, so he had not memorized that man’s appearance.

As he thought of this, Jian Yiwu suddenly looked at a Golden Core cultivator standing not far away and said, “Come here.”

Although the Golden Core cultivator was alarmed, he did not dare disobey.

“Junior Zhan Zhijian is waiting for your orders,” he said fearfully as he walked over and bowed.

“Are you aware of the origins of the Essence Soul cultivator I killed and the Foundation Establishment cultivator I captured earlier? Did they belong to the same sect?” Jian Yiwu’s tone was frosty as he spoke.

“They both worked for the Qi Family’s Commercial Building.” The Golden Core cultivator dared not lie.

“What kind of enemies does the Qi Family have? And which of these enemies came to the Sky Screen?” Jian Yiwu asked with a nod. He had heard of the Qi Family’s Commercial Building before.

“A cultivator called Di Jiu is a huge enemy of theirs,” the Golden Core cultivator said hurriedly. “He even killed a ninth-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Sea Union.”

Di Jiu? Jian Yiwu was extremely pleased. He had not expected to find out who it was exactly. He had just wanted to discover who the enemies of the Qi Family were and ask around if anyone had seen who had collided with the second-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Qi Family before the Sky Screen had opened.

He never would have thought that he would get an answer so easily. It had been a cultivator called Di Jiu…